Ancestor Worship
Continuing to honor parents through ancestral rites after death.
Xiao extends beyond death. Proper funeral rites, mourning practices, and ongoing ancestral sacrifices maintain the connection with parents and express continued devotion.
When parents are alive, serve them according to ritual. When they die, bury them and sacrifice to them according to ritual.
Filial piety continues after parents' death.
Analects
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- What Confucianism says about family
The relationship is not treated as ending at death. Serve them by ritual while they live; bury them and make offerings by ritual when they die.